Quotes About Overcoming

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

It's alright if you lose a few battles, but as long as you win the war, that's all that matters.

We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

It's a good thing I have an oversize ego because if I didn't, you'd have destroyed it.

De qué va esto, Alex? ¿Humillación? Ya he tenido bastante por esta noche. ¿Desprecio? También he tenido suficiente. ¿Odio? No, eso no funcionará; estoy demasiado entumecida para sentirlo. —Hizo una pausa, vacilando—. Me temo que tendrás que recurrir a algo distinto.

Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

She constantly felt as if she were physically wading through air the consistency of thick, wet cement. The

Troubles. They stick to skin like glue, like gum to the sole of a shoe. They slide into the crevices of your heart, slither into your veins, and tug at you from the inside until they become something dark and heavy and not so easy to shake. The

bruises, but as she rubbed at them—making a horrible

from the worst of experiences you learn the best of stuff.

You will never be enough, Ford. When you are weak, because of Him, you are strong.

The goal was always to keep ahead of the pain.

It's not what happens to us, it's how we respond. Being broken, being empty is part of life. But how we fill up those empty places, how we heal - that's what matters.

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.

You can't let a little thing like total public humiliation stand between you and a good time." T.D. in the series Martha Speaks

I came through the crucible, and it did not reduce me to ashes. I survived.

Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't take.

Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday.

If I had learned anything from this past year, it is that despair is love's fiercest enemy.